Jun 15: Froissart's WAT TYLER'S REBELLION

Strikers Storm the Tower of London

Led by Wat Tyler in 1381, great troops of villagers and rusticsmarched on London—laid siege to the Tower—sacked the apartmentsof the King and murdered his ministers. Froissart givesfirst-hand information of this rebellion.

Jun 16: Byron's MANFRED

Spirits at the Top of the World

The inaccessible mountain tops were ever venerated as the hauntsof all mysteries. Manfred, hero of Byron's play, seeks upon thehigh Alps the aid of spirits, specters, and goblins. What unearthlyadventures await him!